The Coming of the Holocaust aims to help readers understand the
circumstances that made the Holocaust possible. Peter Kenez
demonstrates that the occurrence of the Holocaust was not
predetermined as a result of modern history but instead was the
result of contingencies. He shows that three preconditions had to
exist for the genocide to take place: modern anti-Semitism, meaning
Jews had to become economically and culturally successful in the
post French Revolution world to arouse fear rather than contempt;
an extremist group possessing a deeply held, irrational, and
profoundly inhumane worldview had to take control of the machinery
of a powerful modern state; and the context of a major war with
mass killings. The book also discusses the correlations between
social and historical differences in individual countries regarding
the success of the Germans in their effort to exterminate Jews.
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